Social Screening: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Is it true that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder? This adage certainly rings true when social screening your candidates.

In recent years and coinciding with the emergence and popularity of social media platforms, social screening is becoming increasingly prevalent.

But is social screening all that it’s cracked up to be? Or are you wasting your time?

There is no doubt that social screening can be a useful tool in a recruiter's arsenal, you can usually tell a lot about someone from their social presence and it can help reveal professional and lifestyle traits of the candidate that were not present in their CV.